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The stories and people behind the code. Hear stories of software development from interesting peopl

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Story: ReiserFS

2024/11/4

Have you ever known someone who's technical brilliance was overshadowed by personal failings? This i

How do you know what matters? What if training to climb Everest left you certain you were on the wro

 What if your corporate job left you feeling empty, and you decided to leap into venture capital? Ti

Today the tables have turned and you're going to hear someone interview me.  Ronak and Guang from th

What if you had to fight against your company's culture to bring a revolutionary tool to life? Meet

Can you imagine risking your career to making coding easier to learn? Meet Felienne Hermans, a profe

Story: Coding Machines

2024/5/3

What if the tools you trust were actually betraying you? Join us for a riveting story where a team o

Meet Mick West, whose career began in an unusual office setup — sandwiched between a kebab shop and

What if your dedication to doing things right clashed with your company’s fast pace? Chris Krycho fa

Greg Wilson has been on a decades-long quest to transform how we teach and talk about software desig

What if your dreams were suddenly ripped away? What if your talents vanished, your passions erased?

From the early days of exploring creative possibilities on a 486 computer in his childhood to develo

How did Spotify scale from 10 engineers to 100s to 1000s ...without slowing down? Without becoming c

Lost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos.  Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revol

Today, we go behind the scenes at Chef - the game changing infrastructure automation tool. Adam Jaco

Learning to code can feel impossible. Like facing a sheer rock wall with no ropes or harnesses. But

Story: A Dark Room

2023/7/3

 Have you ever been frustrated with your job? Maybe not burnt out, but getting close to there? You u

Today, we meet Ben Dumke-von der Ehe, one of the early developers on the Stack Overflow team.  He wa

How do you accomplish something massive over time? I've had the chance to meet with a number of exce

Story: JSON vs XML

2023/4/3

Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's go